Health Sciences
The Team
Maria Bryant – Chief Investigator – University of York
Maria is the Chief Investigator of the HENRY III Trial. Maria is a professor in Public Health Nutrition within the Health Sciences Department and Hull York Medical School at the University of York. She is a nutritionist with almost 20 years’ experience in the design and delivery of trials and related methodological research in the field of diet and obesity, with a special interest in early years and childhood. In addition to her academic role at the University of York, she is the Director of Nutrition Research for Born in Bradford, the lead for Diet and Obesity evaluation for a Better Start Bradford and the evaluation Chair of ‘ActEarly’, a MRC funded project aiming to promote a healthier, happier, and fairer future for children.
Michelle Collinson – Principal Investigator – Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds
Michelle is an experienced Statistician and triallist with over 14 years’ experience of successful design, implementation and delivery of charity and NIHR funded clinical trials research. Michelle’s significant research experience extends to the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of large definitive phase III trials, in addition to cohort, observational, pilot and feasibility studies.
Amir Sharif – Systems evaluation lead – University of Bradford
Amir is Associate Dean (International & Accreditations) and Professor of Circular Economy. Prior to this, Amir worked for several companies including JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank and KPMG gaining deep experience across technology, manufacturing and the public sector as a result.
Amir continues to research and teach in the areas of food security, circular economy, healthcare, operations/supply chain management, decision-making and humanitarian logistics (he was also an AI researcher early in his academic career). His specific area of interest is in the application of systems thinking, causal and cognitive models to explore human decision-making behaviours in complex environments.
Alicia O’Cathain – Process evaluation lead – University of Sheffield
Alicia O’Cathain is a Professor of Health Services Research based at the University of Sheffield. She is the Director of the Health and Care Research Unit which focuses on the development and evaluation of complex interventions and services in healthcare, social care and third sector organisations.
She has helped to develop interventions and evaluate them, leading the qualitative research and process evaluations.
Adam Martin – Health Economist University of Leeds
Adam is an Associate Professor in Health Economics, based at the University of Leeds. Adam has specific expertise in randomised controlled trials and is leading the economic evaluation for HENRY III.
Wendy Burton – PPI Lead and Research Manager
Wendy is a public health nutritionist and Research Associate within the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. Wendy has experience in implementation research, with a focus on qualitative methods. She also has more than 8 years experience in delivering randomised control trials.
Dr Burton is the named lead for public involvement within HENRY III and will be supporting the systems process evaluation.
Bethan Copsey – Trial Statistician – University of Leeds
Bethan is a medical statistician at the University of Leeds CTRU with expertise in randomised controlled trials. Bethan will be the trial statistician for HENRY, supporting design and delivering the statistical analysis.